EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"AP Journalists Held Out Of White House Events Despite Judge’s Ruling" [9]

"The Associated Press was not included in the in-town pool Monday, and its journalists were rebuffed when trying to cover an Oval Office meeting."

Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [15], 04/15/2025
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Big Oil Seeks to Shield Itself From Climate Liability While Trump Is in Power [16]

"As several climate liability lawsuits against large oil and gas companies inch closer to trial and states start to adopt climate “Superfund” legislation, the White House and Republican-controlled Congress are rolling out new measures to shield the industry from accountability."

Activism [17]
Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Sierra [20], 04/15/2025
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"PR Campaign May Have Fuelled Food Study Backlash, Leaked Document Shows" [21]

"A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation."

Climate Change [18]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [24]
Food [25]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [26], 04/15/2025
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"Documents Reveal Trump’s Plan To Gut Funding For Nasa And Climate Science" [27]

"Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed"

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [10]
Science [28]
Technology [29]
Transportation [30]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [31], 04/15/2025
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Trump Axed Rule Designed To Spare Taxpayers The Burden Of Future Flooding [32]

"The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and over again."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [35]
Planning & Growth [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Grist/BPR [38], 04/15/2025
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"White House Outlines Plan To Gut NOAA, Smother Climate Research" [39]

"The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [33]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [24]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Government [42]
Natural Resources [43]
Science [28]
Technology [29]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [44], 04/14/2025
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"Trump Hits Delete For Energy, Environment Regs" [45]

"The president’s suite of executive orders to decimate environmental regulations will propel his administration into court."

Biodiversity [46]
Chemicals [47]
Climate Change [18]
Consumer [22]
Disasters [33]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [24]
Government [42]
Health [49]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [50]
Waste [51]
Water & Oceans [37]
Wildlife [52]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [53], 04/14/2025
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Court Allows Suit Alleging Environmental Racism In La. Parish To Proceed [54]

"A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a federal appellate court says."

Activism [17]
Chemicals [47]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [50]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [55]
Source: AP [56], 04/14/2025
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"EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting" [57]

"The cancellation of a meeting of top advisors to the agency’s scientific research arm, with no explanation or plans to reschedule, signals bad news for public health and the environment, say former advisors."

Chemicals [47]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [42]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [50]
Science [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 04/14/2025
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"Layoffs And Funding Delays Could Slow Fight Against Lead, Experts Say" [59]

"Funding delays for lead pipe replacement and the elimination of a CDC lead program could put children at risk."

Chemicals [47]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [50]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [60], 04/14/2025
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"Mexico To Send Water To Texas Farmers As US Treaty Threat Grows" [61]

"Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to Texas farmers to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained US relations and prompted tariff threats by Donald Trump, said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, on Friday."

Agriculture [62]
Biodiversity [46]
Climate Change [18]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [43]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [63]
Mexico [64]
Source: Reuters [65], 04/14/2025
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African Conservationists Seek More Love For Vultures [66]

"Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. But conservationists in Africa are trying to change that."

Biodiversity [46]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [24]
Natural Resources [43]
Wildlife [52]
Public [13]
Africa [67]
Source: AP [68], 04/14/2025
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Trump EPA Will Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters [69]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change. The move, ordered by a Trump appointee, would affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country, including oil refineries, power plants and coal mines as well as those that make petrochemicals, cement, glass, iron and steel, according to documents reviewed by ProPublica."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [50]
Science [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: ProPublica [70], 04/11/2025
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Trump BLM Nominee Sgamma Withdraws [71]

"President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn from consideration."

Biodiversity [46]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [42]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [43]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [72], 04/11/2025
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1000s of US Water Systems Show Dangerous Levels Of Cancer-Causing Chemicals [73]

"Millions of people across the United States could be drinking water contaminated with dangerous levels of substances created when utilities disinfect water tainted with animal manure and other pollutants, according to a report released Thursday."

Chemicals [47]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [50]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The New Lede [74], 04/11/2025
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